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antique-symbolism · 3 years

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been thinking about this a lot the last couple days but I feel like Psychonauts 2 is the equal and opposite of A Series of Unfortunate Events

they’re equal in that they’re both about a highly insular covert organization full of adults with PTSD who, even in their most genuine efforts to do right by the next generation, are thwarted by their own unpacked trauma. Because of this, it falls unfairly to the children to survive the mistakes of their elders and break the cycle

they’re opposite in that ASOUE shows the most tragic potential ending of the story, whereas Psychonauts 2 shows the most hopeful one.

#asoue #psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #general spoilers ahead in the tags for the direction of both plots #diagetically speaking the difference is probably bc VFD had a schism and the psychonauts did not #VFD was so horribly fractured that it cut everybody off from the community support that could have aided their healing #suspicion and animosity reigned supreme #whereas the psychonauts continued to operate at a competent capacity after the founders scattered #and not only did this allow the founders to eventually reunite under the same mission and help heal each other #it also allowed raz an education and support that the baudelaires were never afforded #raz had sasha and milla and hollis and despite everything also ford #whereas the baudelaires had no one but each other and had to fight for their lives #so even though raz shouldn't have been responsible for all he ended up having to do #he had the tools not only to survive but also to help #and the founders had a space to take accountability for their actions and right their wrongs #whereas virtually none of asoue's adults lived long enough to do so #and the most the narrative could give the baudelaires was survival and a big old question mark as to their future #(okay also I think if you read the asoue eu materials also VFD was always a lot more fucked up than the psychonauts)#(but that's a whole other meta there)

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